We continued our work with Remembrance Day today.

  The kids watched the news clip of the memorial ceremony in Lacombe for Master Cpl. Byron Greff and they wanted me to put the link up on the blog so that they could share it with their parents.

Here it the link if you would like to watch it with your child.

Master Cpl Byron Greff Memorial Article

GREEN PAPER COMING HOME WITH YOUR CHILD FOR PARENT COUNCIL PROJECT.

A green coloured square is coming home with your child.  

The directions are on the back of the paper for you.

You can send the paper in to the office or you can send it back with your to pass to me and our classroom messenger will take them down to the office. 

GREEN PAPERS NEED TO BE BACK BY NOVEMBER 3.

JACE - Thank you Jace for always showing kindness to others.  You are such a hard working young man with a drive to take on any new challenge with your smile!  I love you "never give up" attitude.  Keep it up.

MACKIE - Thank you for always being willing to lend a helping hand to others.  You go above and beyond to make people smile!

Lincoln - Thank you for always showing such a strong drive in the classroom.  I can see that you always want to do your best work and you put in such a great effort!!

GREAT JOB KIDDOS...YOU ARE ROCKSTARS!

Challenge Question - Oct 26

Task:  Write Mrs. Barker 3 sentences about what REMEMBRANCE DAY means to you.

Task 2: Tell Mrs. Barker 3 things that you can do to make the world a better place and to spread peace in the world.

Remembrance Day

We have started our discussions about Remembrance Day in class. 

I am linking a few of the videos that we watched as a class.

This topic can always be hard for students as there is a level of sadness to it.

I let them know that it is okay to be sad.  It makes me sad as I lost a friend to the war in Afghanistan.

Rest in peace Bryon Greff.  You are missed.

This is the memorial tank that was set up  for Byron in my home town of Lacombe.  He was a hero in so many different ways.

Please take the time to view these videos and have some conversations with your children at home about what Remembrance Day means to you.

Pittance of Time

A Soldier Cries

A Soldier Cries 2

Highway of Heroes

Highway of Heroes - Trews Song

Never Let Go

Challenge Question - Oct 24

Lightning McQueen has a race car number on his side.

In order for him to win his race and NOT run out of gas he needs your help.

TASK: You need to show his race car number in as many different ways as you can.  

You need to come up with at least 5 different ways for him not to run out of gas.

HINT: Think of all the different ways we worked on today...base ten name, with words, expanded form and there are TONS more!

GOOD LUCK!

Find out which base ten drawing for each box is the greater number.

MUSICAL INSTRUMENT CLASS PROJECT

On TUESDAY, Oct 24th your child will be constructing a working musical instrument in science class.  They need to bring the materials that they want to use for this project from home.  Your child needs to decide what kind of instrument they want to make this weekend.  Your child may want to draw a plan for their instrument this weekend and bring it in on Tuesday.  Please send your child with ALL their instrument building materials on TUESDAY.  I will have some extra materials on hand if they are needed.  Do not worry about sending in things like tape, rubber bands or yarn as I will have all that.  DO NOT HAVE THEM CONSTRUCT ANY PART OF THEIR INSTRUMENT AT HOME AS ALL THE BUILDING WILL BE DONE AT SCHOOL!!!

Instrument choices: a wind instrument (needs to be blown into), a percussion instrument (needs to be tapped or hit) or a string instrument (needs to be plucked or strummed). 

Thank you for your help with this project.

Mrs. C Barker

Challenge Question - Oct. 16

Mrs. Barker is making pizza for the class.  

We have 21 students in our class.  If each pizza that Mrs. Barker makes has 4 slices.  

How many pizzas will Mrs. Barker need to make to make sure that there is enough pizza to feed the entire class?

TO DO: Picture, Number Sentence and Written Sentence

RAZ KIDS ACCOUNTS ARE SET UP!!!

Your child has an account ready to go on RAZ KIDS website.  You can access the site through the Language Arts tab of my blog.

The password was emailed to you.

Time spent reading on RAZ KIDS counts towards reading chart minutes.  

Thank you to my parent drivers and parent helpers for the field trip today. 

We could not do these trips without you!

Challenge Question - Oct 12, 2017

Game on Davis...let's see if you can solve this one!

Jace...you are smart cookie too so lets see what you come up with!!

200 + 300 + 400 - 100 - 300 + 900 - 50 - 50 + 25 + 500 = 

Good luck smarties!!

Challenge Question - Oct. 11

Reading Task:

1) Go to Language Arts tab on blog.

2) Go to Storyline Online

3) Listen to Private I Guana

Comprehension Task: Draw a picture to show what happens in the beginning, middle and end of the story.

We are off to HELEN SCHULER tomorrow morning.  We will be leaving at 9:00 am and returning at 11:30 am.

PLEASE MAKE SURE THAT YOUR CHILD DRESSES FOR THE WEATHER AS SOME PARTS WILL BE OUTSIDE.

PARENT DRIVERS:  Please be at the classroom at 9:00 am.  If you are not staying for the field trip please return to Helen Schuler for 11:00 am.  Thanks.

FLASHLIGHT FRIDAY!!!!

We are going to be starting flashlight Friday this week.

KIDS LOVE THIS!  I

It is where they get to use a flashlight to complete learning tasks with the lights out and the blinds closed.

If you have a SMALL flashlight please send it in with your child by FRIDAY.  If you do not have one you can get small ones at the dollar store that will work great.  The one by Bulk Barn has lots. :)

Challenge Question - Oct 5

Task 1:  What are 10 nouns that start with the letter "S"?

Task 2:  Come up with 4 adjectives to describe a polar bear.

PATTERNS PRACTICE SHEET COMING HOME WITH YOUR CHILD. 

 THIS IS FOR THEM TO PRACTICE NUMBER PATTERNS AT HOME.

THIS IS A STUDY SHEET.  IT DOES NOT NEED TO COME BACK TO SCHOOL.

Challenge question - Oct 2

TASK: DRAW THE NEXT THREE FRAMES FOR EACH GROWING PATTERN ABOVE.

PATTERNS UNIT TEST FOR MATH ON THURSDAY.

At home please have your child practice:

1. Solving increasing and decreasing number patterns.

2.  Drawing increasing and decreasing patterns with shapes.

3. Forming repeating patterns with a CORE that repeats at least three times.